OCZ is slashing prices on its 1TB Revo Drive Hybrid, and Amazon is the first retailer to go live with the new pricing. Amazon is listing the drive at $159.99 versus an MSRP of $495.00. The previous low for the drive was $199 a little over a week ago.

The Revo Drive Hybrid features a PCI-E interface and combines 128GB of MLC flash with a 1TB HDD. It offers read speeds of up to 910 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 810 MB/sec.

Tiger Direct and Newegg are expected to match Amazon's pricing within the next few hours if you have a preference for those retailers.

My Vertex 2 has been fine, had it for a couple of years now, guess it's just the pick of the lottery, but when I upgrade again it will probably be another OCZ drive based on price/capacity and the experience I have had with my current one.